^q36 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIÀ- l Scirpus} 
brown.—-Seades roundish oval, concave, chaffy, brown, smooth; the. 
aXib-or 1 nerve ending in.a subulate point beyond the rounded apex. 
— Stamens three on the.exterior side of the germ, one-bearded bris- _ 
tle between each. filament, aud three on the back, making in all five, 
Germ ovate —Style with swelled, permanent, cordate base.—! 
Stigma three-cleft.—Seed oblong, three-sided, bdo at 
five-béarded bristles. 
Obs. It approaches Sc. grossus, Fall. Pm. ii. 270.; the but 
marks to distinguish them by, are the bristles which embrace thegerm, 
and continue with the seed; bere they are five iu number and vil- 
lous, there six, and barbed, or armed on the margin, with sharp bris 
tles: pointing backward. My Sc. marimus.is-a much larger species, 
_-and the germ destitute of bristles. 
aii  Scignosms. Fal. Enum. i ii. eer. yb "eo 
Culms, erect, from | six-to ten feet high, triangular. Deg spe. 
decompound. Seed three- sided, beset with six, backwardly tipid, 
bristles. 
Exclude Sc. grossus. Retz. Obs. v. 15. which I „presume is my Se. 
maximus ; the germ and seed being there destitute of the “bristly i in- 
volucre. To which of these Sc. grossus, Linn. Suppl. ought. to be. 
referred, I cannot say. 
This, next to Sc. maximus, is $ far the largest species ] Thavee ever. 
met with. It grows. in standing sweet water. i a 
“Culm erect, mostly naked, from six to ten feet. high; three-side 
angles sharp, sides concave -— Leaves radical, and round the base of 
the culms sheathing, much keeled, almost as long as the ‘culms 
edges slightly scabrous.—-Umbel super-decompound,, five or E 
inches each way.— Involucre. three-leaved, the largest about two feet 
the. shortest six inches, they taper to a long, acute point; n argin, 
pretty smooth.—Involucels chaff fy, — Spikes oblong, " dark-brown, 
many-flowered.- .—Stamens three, with two bristles between each pait_ 
— Style: tliree-cleft.— Seed three-sided, embraced by: the six enlarge". 
— which are armed on jw vini bent back, shot. 
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